Cotton ginning · Texas

Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin

Ropesville, TX · ~15 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cotton ginning workplace, earning a grade C.

Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin: 3.7 TCR = 82% of Cotton ginning BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin safety composite

Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−9.0

2016→2021

Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin injury rate improved

Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin's TCR fell 9.0 from 9.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.0 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115111 · Ropesville, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #39/95
  • PHOTO DOERUN GIN COMPANY, …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DOERUN GIN COMPANY, INC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin averages 3.7 TCR (82% of the Cotton ginning BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin TCR series: 2016=9 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin falls in its industry

194 Cotton ginning establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 95 Cotton ginning employers in Texas.

Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin (15 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 102030405060 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin
Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin (15 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Ropes Farmers Cooperative Gin has fewer employees than the Cotton ginning median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.2 9.2 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2016 9.0 9.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115111 · TX · Ropesville

194 Cotton ginning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR DOERUN GIN COMPANY, INC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hale Center Gin, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bogue Chitto Gin 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sandy Ridge Cotton Co. LLC 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farmers Cooperative Gin 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wells Farmers Cooperative gin 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hwy 67 Gin Co., Inc. 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ross Gin 15 FTE
NAT-TCR GoldRiver Orchards, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold Medal Products - Cincinnati 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hostess Brands Columbus 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Wm. W. Meyer & Sons, Inc - Headquarters 3.7 TCR

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.